Random Inspirational Quotes

"Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]."

"Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided."

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads toself-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,that's real power."

"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves."

"Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table."

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."

"Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows."

"I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God."

"I walked to work. I paced up and down the bus looking for a seat. Next time I walk to work I’m getting on my treadmill."

"The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."

"To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know."

"I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way"

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."

"Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been."

"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."

"Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea."

"You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too."

"There is a trick to flying. The angels told me."He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will."I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?""Love the sky."